Quick Update....

I've shot a lot of stuff for advance lately so naturally i cant post it. But here's a tree.


... also....

Along this topic.

(Kids, Pay attention here and strap in.)

On Monday, a national magazine was in town to do some photo work. We knew about it, one of the assistants had called around looking for a white seemless background to borrow. (The paper didn't have one.) So 3 days later - yesterday - Mr. Assistant proceeds to do a blog-post about his experiences assisting as well as posting pictures of the shoot and also outing it as a cover shot.

This is the biggest no-no you can do as an assistant. As an assistant, you are there to work. Not brag about what you've done on the internet, but you are there to assist the photographer and perhaps put it on your resume, and maybe do a blog-post, assuming you check with him first. What you don't ever do is to let the cat out of the bag about WHAT'S GOING TO BE ON THE COVER in advance. That's almost a big guarantee of never assisting again. I know that I'd never use him again if he was my assistant.

I'm not going to humiliate him any further by outing him (beyond our photo dept. and a few close friends who also contract with said national publication) or say what publication it was. The guy in question took the posting down after a few hours, but not after someone had linked to it, which is how i found it in the first place.

So quick lesson here. When you are on assignments with other people as assisting them, those assignments are the photographers business and not yours. You don't need to ever talk about what you've done with them until after it is published.